'Crime has no ethnicity' — Obi defends Fulani against ethnic profiling

Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), cautioned against linking crime to ethnicity, warning that such profiling fuels division. In a statement on X, he shared his own experience of stereotypes as an Igbo man and expressed understanding for ordinary Fulani people unfairly judged. Citing Martin Luther King Jr., he argued that discrimination based on identity should be challenged. Obi called on law enforcement to prosecute criminals individually without stigmatizing entire communities.